Saturday Sweeps: 1/2/10

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I get a lot of sweepstakes sent to me throughout the week by readers and companies alike. I don't often have time to post these, but I'd still like to be be able to share them with you, so Saturday Sweeps will be a new regular feature here on Deal Seeking Mom.

Come back each Saturday, and I'll share my favorite sweepstakes for the week. I'd love to hear about a DSM reader winning big!

The HGTV Dream Home 2010 launched on the 1st of the year. You can enter once a day from now to February 19, 2010 for a chance to win this year's Dream Home in New Mexico, complete with car and $500,000 cash.

Ladies' Home Journal is giving away a grand prize spa weekend at Canyon Ranch in their Spa Getaway Giveaway, plus four first prize winners will also win spa packages valued at $1,000 each from now through March 5, 2010.

IKEA lovers should enter Good Housekeeping's IKEA Room Makeover Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $2,500 IKEA gift card through May 31, 2010. Note: Read the fine print to click on the link that let's you enter without opting in to the free trial subscription to Good Housekeeping.

All You Magazine's January sweepstakes offers up several chances to win with a grand prize of 25 sessions with an ACE-certified personal trainer to keep you on track with your New Year's resolutions. Enter now through January 21, 2010.

New and expectant parents could benefit from the Graco The Heart Knows Sweepstakes Welcome Home Party Package with a grand prize valued near $25,000. Graco will provide airfare and accomodations for 10 people to come visit you and your new addition, complete with a product package, college savings bond, catering, photographers and more. Contest is open to parents of babies born or expected from 04/01/09 to 09/30/10, and you can enter daily until April 1, 2010.

I think this is a great idea! Entering and winning online contests and games is just another thing I do, like couponing and requesting free samples. . In the last 3 months that I've been doing it, I've already won almost $500 worth of gift cards and goodies!

Magazine websites are always a good place to find multiple sweepstakes. Here are some others that have a lot:

You should only enter sweeps that you can AFFORD to win because you have to pay taxes out of your pocket for any big wins. So for example, the HGTV house in New Mexico, with car and cash sounds like a GREAT prize, but you'd have to pay taxes on all that loot, which could be pretty high! Just keep that in mind when choosing which sweeps to enter. Do you have the cash to cover your big wins?

Jessica has an excellent point, I was going to say that too. More than once, I believe, the winners of the HGTV Dream home had to give up or sell their house because they couldn't afford the taxes for winning it, or the property taxes, the power bills, etc.

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Tara Kuczykowski is a married mom of three boys and two girls, ages 5 to 11 years, living in Columbus, OH.

As a former career-oriented professional turned stay-at-home mom, reconciling champagne tastes with a tap-water budget was a challenge, especially with a large family. By learning how to cut costs on her family's basic needs, she has found the key to having more disposable income for the things in life that make it worth living.